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Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store
Shehroze Farooqi, Álvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger +3
"Incentivized" advertising platforms allow mobile app developers to acquire new users by directly paying users to install and engage with mobile apps (e.g., create an account, make…
CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks
Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq +1
Online social networks support a vibrant ecosystem of third-party apps that get access to personal information of a large number of users. Despite several recent high-profile incid…
Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace
Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro +5
Over the past few years, many black-hat marketplaces have emerged that facilitate access to reputation manipulation services such as fake Facebook likes, fraudulent search engine o…